Sixteen years later,
In a blue planet called Earth, in a city named Beijing (China), a Young Man about an height of 182 cm with his handsome face full of childishness could be seen looking at the back of a necklace written on it “Ni Tian Long” meaning “Defying Dragon”, the name he bears. His expression betrayed a mix of longing and uncertainty as he traced the intricate characters with his fingertips. This necklace, his only keepsake from his unknown parents that he was found with.
Navigating the crowded streets of Beijing, Tian Long made his way towards the orphanage that had been his home for so many years.
The bustling cityscape provided a stark contrast to the quiet sanctuary of his childhood, but amidst the chaos, Tian Long found a sense of belonging that he had never known before.
Arriving at the familiar gates of the orphanage, Tian Long was greeted by the sight of Old Ning, a kind-hearted woman who took care of him like a mother since he was young.
Her wrinkled face softened with warmth as she addressed him, her voice tinged with a mixture of affection and sadness. "Tian Long, don't worry yourself about us. Just go and focus on your studies," she urged, her eyes betraying the weight of years spent in selfless service to the children under her care.
At a young age, Tian Long was able to grasp knowledge quickly like the intelligence of twenty years which earned him a scholarship to one of the prestigious school in China.
His heart clenched with a pang of guilt as he considered leaving Old Ning and the orphanage behind. They had been his family when he had none, and the thought of parting ways filled him with a sense of loss that he struggled to bear. "But what about staying here and helping you take care of the orphanage?" he pleaded, his voice tinged with desperation.
"Tian Long, I don't want to hear this from you again," she admonished, her tone firm but tinged with unspoken sorrow. Reluctantly, Tian Long bowed his head in resignation, knowing that he could not change Old Ning's mind.
“Don't worry My Child, I promise we would see again” Tian Long hearing this clinged to that promise, he turned his back on the orphanage and set off towards his future.
As he walked towards the prestigious school that awaited him, Tian Long thoughts were consumed by the unknown path that lay ahead of him.
Suddenly, a searing heat engulfed Tian Long's body, causing him to stagger and gasp for breath. Unbuttoning his shirt in a desperate attempt to cool himself, his vision blurred and darkness crept in at the edges. With a groan of pain, he collapsed to the ground, his consciousness slipping away.
Unbeknownst to Tian Long, the necklace he wore pulsed with an otherworldly light. In a flash of blinding energy, his body was sucked into the necklace.
Regaining his consciousness, he looked around and saw himself in a strange realm. Then he heard a voice that brought shock to his soul “Little one, you have finally awakened”. Looking for the source of the voice, he beheld 12 distinct Beasts: the dragon, phoenix, vermilion bird, tiger, fox, qilin, tortoise, wolf, crow, a giant rat, a fish, and an unknown bird and an elephant.
Then one of the beasts came forward and said “ We are the Ancestral Beast; my Beast name is Primal Chaos Dragon”. Pointing out the other 11 Ancestral Beast name, he continued “ And they are the Nine-Colored Phoenix, Vermilion Bird, Kunpeng, Ancestral Qilin, Black Tortoise, White Tiger, Ten-Tailed Fox, Fenrir, Divine Elephant, Three-Legged Sun Crow, and Space-Time Rat”
Listening to the Ancestral Dragon, he felt confused why he was here. The Ancestral Dragon seeing his confused expression explained to him “The reason you are here was due to your Physique and your necklace”. Elaborating further “You are the holder of the Ancient Yang Physique which is one of the key to awaken our inheritance, not only that your necklace is our inheritance which is now awakened”
Digesting this information, “Ok I understand, Can you still send me back to Earth”. Hearing his words, they all kept quiet. Seeing their expression, he felt a bad feeling.
“Little one, you are basically dead which means you can't go back to Earth”. When he heard the words of the Ancestral Beast, his expression turned pale.
Thinking of the well being of Old Ning, his face turned paler. “Is there no any other way” he asked with hope evident in his eyes. Crushing the hope “Sorry little one there is nothing we can do”.
“Our time is getting short, we have to wrap it up quickly. Your necklace is also known as the Source Orb formed from the fusion of our flesh. Currently, we are not aware of all of its secrets so we hope you are able to unleash all of its power”
“How do you guys die” Tian Long asked with an intriguing expression.
“Knowing all of this would do you no good, it will be revealed to you in the future. Time to go”. Then Tian Long lost consciousness.
“Why were you harsh on him like that and why did you tell such lie to him” One of the ancestral beast confronted the dragon
“Have you forgotten the instruction given to us” the dragon berated.
Hearing this, they all kept quiet.
Meanwhile while all this happened, in a planet called Source Continent a slim young man with a pale face could be seen lying down on a bed. Suddenly, the young man opened his eyes looking at the environment unfamiliar to him.
As he was looking at the environment he was, a soothing voice sounding with joy “Young Master you are awake”. Looking at the familiar yet unfamiliar girl jumping with joy.
As he was looking at the girl she was a little bit shorter than him, a unfamiliar yet familiar memory entered his head. Peeking at the memory, everything dawned on him that he had been transmigrated.
He was now in a world of cultivation that was a fantasy on Earth. The owner of this body was named Tian Long too, he was also an orphan adopted by the Family head of the Long Family who was now considered missing. The owner of this body was given the title trash due to his inability to cultivate.
This girl in front of him was his predecessor maid who has been taking care of him since his young age. Her name was Feng Xianer, that little girl was now sixteen years.
“Xianer don't worry about me, am alright now” Tian Long said. Hearing his words, she felt assured about the safety of her Young Master.
The Long Family was one of the Four Giants of the Dragon City (A middle level city); The Chen Family, Murong Family, Duanmu Family and Long Family. This families are the one who are ranked below the City Lord of the Dragon City. As for the City Lord, there is no memories of him/her in the predecessor memory.
The Long Family Head was a one-in-million genius cultivator but before he was able to bloom, the genius abruptly disappeared. This Genius was his Adopted Father who left only a message for his predecessor that if he is able to cultivate he should unlock what he left for him before he disappeared.
As he read the memories of his predecessor he understood more about him, due to his low talent he was always bullied in the Long Family because in this world only strength matters which made him cower in fear in front of strong cultivator.
The reason why he was lying on the bed was that he fell sick which caused an illness that resulted to his death but no one knew. About his death, he decided to keep his mouth sealed about this or he would be skinned alive if anyone knew he was not the same Tian Long.
Putting aside these thoughts, he began to check some fragmented memories he felt that were different when checking his predecessor memories.
The ancestral beast were the progenitor of all beastkind.They were the initial beast created since the beginning of the universe and the creation of heaven and earth but they disappeared for a long period of time due to a war which marked a period of decline for the beast clan.
Peering into the first fragmented memory, Tian Long's gaze fell upon a cultivation method which he was sure that it was made by the Ancestral Beast; the Ancestral Beast Chant Method. This sacred technique defied the natural order by encompassing soul cultivation, body refinement, and essence cultivation in a single, harmonious system.
With mounting excitement, Tian Long realized that this technique had been crafted specifically for him, the chosen heir of the Ancestral Beasts' legacy.
Eager to try the wonders of cultivation, he saw that he had to use the body refining method of the ancestral chant method in order to cultivate in Body Refining Realm.
The body refining method can be cultivated by “Using herbs, ore metals or beast blood but in order to forge the foundation he must use the source qi produced by the Source orb." This was what he read in the fragmented memory
Checking the source orb, he saw a limited reserve of source qi in the orb. Not minding the quantity, he closed his eyes and began to follow the ancient chant instructions.
“Using the Chaos qi, Reincarnation qi, Space-time qi, Karma qi as the main foundation of my body. Oh dao of law refine my body”
Different spiritual aura rose from the source orb, with four color dominant while others are faint in color. His whole body was getting refined with his dantian including his 108 veins or meridians. Forging his body with the source qi, he felt like a shackle had been broken from his whole body.
His cultivation started propelling as he entered into the realm of cultivation;
“1st level Body Refining Realm…,
2nd level body refining realm……,
then the rising cultivation stopped at the early stage of 5th level of body refining realm.
Upon opening his eyes, he noticed black, viscous filth on his body and proceeded to the bathroom to cleanse himself due to the strong stench.
Looking at the bathroom, Tian Long noticed that it had some similarities between earth's own which made it easy to be used.
When Tian Long finished his bath, he checked himself in the mirror and saw there was a lot of resemblance between his predecessor and him. Their height were almost the same except that he is slimmer than before. Not only that, he noticed that his pupil eyes has turned golden because from the memory of his predecessor he knew his pupils were black before not golden.
The similarities between them made Tian Long suspect maybe this was a parallel world but looking at his environment, it seems that it is not so.
Checking his new strength, he saw that even though he was at the early stage of the 5th level of body refining realm, his foundation was sturdy like a peak stage 5th level body refining realm.
While he was doing of all this, a wave of exhaustion fell over him, all the transmigration and what he passed through before arriving here had put a toll on his soul. Laying down his head on the bed, he fell asleep.
Meanwhile as he was sleeping, he didn't know the ripple and ruckus caused when he was refining his body. The strongest cultivator on Source Continent all felt the movement of the laws. Looking for the source of this, they all mobilized their cultivators to the continent to find the unprecedented disturbance.
As all that was going, Tian Long found himself in a strange realm. Looking around the realm, he saw nothing but darkness, then suddenly the realm changed into a bloody battlefield where bones of different sizes, height and race could be seen. Not knowing the races, he began to feel nauseous because of the smell of blood and carnage.
Then a strong killing intent landed , it was so strong that he was losing his breath. But just as the killing intent threatened to consume him, a voice pierced the darkness, calling out to him with urgency and concern.He then heard an anxious voice saying “Young Master, wake up!”, A deep light shine on the realm and with a jolt he woke up and gasping for breath.
Looking at Feng Xianer who was looking at him with worried expression, he comforted her that he was alright.
Seeing her young master was alright, she then remembered what she was here to do.
“Young master I brought your food, you haven't eaten anything since you are awake” looking at the food she brought for him he unconsciously put up his guard. Even though he was transmigrated to this world, he can not completely trust anyone yet.
But his stomach denied him as it made a cute noise. Hearing the sound, he felt ashamed but it wasn't his fault because he had not eat anything since he had gotten to this world.
With a grateful nod, he began to savour the food, asking Feng Xianer “For how long did I fall asleep”
With a thoughtful expression on her face “Young Master you have slept for more than 6 hours” she said with courtesy.
Hearing her words he began think, according to his calculation he had only spent 1 hour in that strange realm. Pondering about what happened in the realm, his mindset was dealt with a blow about the information on this world showing it was still shallow.
So he thought of going to the library of the Long family(it is called skill hall here) but he suppressed his curiosity and decided to check the second fragmented memory as his next step of action. Checking it, he saw that it contains different battle art, a single alchemy art, refinery art and formation art. Looking at the Battle Art, his interest was piqued. Taking looks at the level of skill he saw they were already graded in the memory; Human rank, Profound rank, Earth rank, Heaven rank, Saint rank and Emperor rank. Checking each Art rank but unlucky he can only access the Human and Profound rank.
Knowing that greediness can sometimes kill a man, he began to check the human rank technique and while checking the technique he saw a strange one. Browsing through the art, he was shocked because it was an upgradeable art, the name of this Art is called the fire essence art, this art when cultivated to completion can improve based on the level of the users name.
According to the art, flames in this world are ranked as follows; Normal flame, Soul flame, Beast flame, Earth flame and Heaven flame being the highest
This Art can be attached to a weapon before completion but when reaching completion, it can be attached to anything including one's body.
When Tian Long read this, he immediately picked the technique. Since the memory was found in his soul he was sure that it was the doings of the ancestral beast.
Picking two more he removed his consciousness from the memory rune. The other two arts he picked were the Lion Punch Art; while the other one was a profound ranked Art; Thunder Sword Art.
Not wasting a lot of time, he began to train in the arts. Latter in the day, Tian Long could be seen with sweat all over his body. Now he has cultivated both human rank art into rudimentary stage while the thunder sword art was still at entry stage.
The art ranks are divided into the entry stage, rudimentary stage, mastery stage and completion stage. When cultivating the thunder sword, he felt there was a barrier stopping him from reaching the next stage.
The instruction of the thunder sword art said that the thunder sword technique is as fast as lightning, ferocious and arrogant as a thunder. Contemplating on the meaning of this words, he didn't understand the meaning of the world. Seeing there was no inspiration, he decided to leave it for the future.
He began to head towards the Long family library to know and understand more about this world.
Meanwhile Tian Long didn't know that as he started cultivating the Ancestral Beast Chant Method, in an unknown space a stagnant meteor moved heading towards Tian Long's direction.
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